Identifier: NewEnglandaviatVol1Tick (find matches)
Title: New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed
Subjects: Biography Aeronautics World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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d LawSchool, but left in the spring of 1917 to go to Plattsburg. He attended Plattsburg Camp in 1916, and Plattsburg OfficersTraining Camp in the summer of 1917. He enlisted May, 1917. Hewas commissioned 2d Lieut., F.A., and was ordered to CampDevens, where he was attached first to Battery 1, 302d F.A.; thento Headquarters Co., 302d F.A. He was commissioned 1st Lieut.,F.A., early in the winter of 1918. He was ordered to take exami-nation as Aerial Observer, and was sent for training successively toPost Field, Fort Sill, Okla.; Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex.; Self ridgeField, Mt.Clemens, Mich.; and Park Place, Houston, Tex. He waswith the 191st Squadron, 2d Wing, Air Service. At Park Placehe was made Chief Observer of the 2d Wing, consisting of the190th and 191st Squadrons. He was killed in an airplane accident near Kingsville, Tex., onSept. 17, 1918. He was interred in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 21, 1918. Married, Oct. 13, 1917, Marjorie Stafford Root; one child, Mary;born July 22, 1918. ( 302 )
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* RALPH SANGER Captain, U.S.N., A.S., CO. Ferry Pilots, Orly Field, France Killed in airplane accident, Aug. 29, 1918 Son of William Thompson and Ellen (Horswell) Sanger, of NewYork City; was born at Cambridge, Mass., May 31, 1882. He waseducated at St. Marks School, Southboro, Mass., and at HarvardCollege, A.B. 1904. He rowed on the Harvard freshman crew andon the Harvard four-oared crew. He attended the Officers Training Camp at Plattsburg in Aug.,1917, graduating with a commission as Capt. of Infantry, aboutNov. 27, 1917. He transferred to the Aviation Service and wentfirst to Fort Sill, Okla., then to Austin, Tex., for eight weekstraining in machine-gunnery and wireless telegraphy. He con-tinued his instruction in flying at Hazlehurst Field, Mineola, N.Y.,beginning in April, 1918. He passed all tests and received his wingsin July, when he received overseas orders, and sailed for France.He was given command of 250 officers, known as ferry pilots, atOrly Field, France, on Aug. 20. H

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